Improved graduated bottle



' UNrrE 'rares GEORGE w. stroEcKEL, 0E PITTsBUEe, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVED GRADUATE-D BQTTLE.

Specification forming part of `Letters Patent.No. 52,46! dat ed`February 6,' 1866.

To all whom 'it may come/m.-

Beit known that I, GE'ORQE W. SToEcKEL, of Pittsburg, in the county ofAllegheny and State of Pennsylvania,'have invented a new part ofthisspecication.

' The drawing is a side elevation'of a bottle which illustrates myimprovement.

This in vent-ion constitutes an improved article of man ufacture-to wit,a molded or pressed bottle having the common graduating-marks molded orpressed thereon;

I am well aware that bottlesv have been made with graduating-marks entupon the surface thereof,fand this vI do not claim; but, so far as I amaware, a molded or pressed bottle with graduating-marks molded orpressed thereon at the time of manufacture is new. This constitutes myimprovement.

I prepare molds for casting or pressin g the bottles in the usual andmost approved manner, the interior of the mold being provided with the`necessary eontigurations, so that when the bottle is finished thegraduating-marks will'be apparent upon the exterior thereof,substantially as represented inthe drawing. The making of the mold, theuse thereof, andthe production of the bottle may be done according toany of the most approved methods used in"`glass'making, care being takento employ l skill and accuracy1 in the manufacture of the graduatedbottle. i

The com mon way of producing graduated bottles is to cut the graduatinglines and tig'- ures upon. the bottle by hand by means of stones anddiamonds. This method is so very slow, difficult, and costlyin itsexecution that it amounts to a practical prohibition against the generalemployment of graduated bottles, though .their convenience andimportance for common use is well understood. The cutting` -of thegraduating-lines also tends to weaken the bottle and render itl lia-bleto fracture from a slight blow or jarring.

As a result of my improvement, I am. enabled to produce graduatedbottles at a very slight increase of expense over the ordinary plainbottles, and the graduating-lines not. be

tle, tend to strengthen the bottle.

graduated bottle than has ever been before known.

claim as an improved article of man ufactnre- A molded or pressed graduated bottle made substantially as herein described. v

GEO. W. STOECKEL.`

Witnesses:

DANIEL VoLLMEa, AUG. L. SELLE.

ing cut, but pressed or molded upon the bot- My improvement also enablesme tosupply y the public with a stronger, better, and'cheaper Havingthus described my improvement, I

The above ,specification of my inventionv signed by me this 11th day ofDecember, 1865..

